12 months of weather in Minnesota is usually quite interesting but 2023 certainly delivered on some extremes. Let’s take a look at my top...

El Niño is going very strong in the eastern Pacific and it appears that it’s already impacting our weather and meteorological winter...

While there has been ice growth in the last six days since we left Churchill, it’s still way behind not only the modern average...

It was an incredible week on the tundra in northern Canada. We sawn an estimated 31 polar bears in total from arrival on Sunday, November...

Otis was a tropical storm, not forecast to become even a category one hurricane until 24 hours before landfall and wasn’t forecast to...

It was a cold morning early Saturday. We saw our first freeze in most of the metro and even the first frost at all in the urban core of...

Coming after the 5th hottest summer ever recorded we just finished the hottest ever recorded September, beating the #1 spot of 1897 that...

Like the answer to most things, it’s complicated. To be sure, the rainfall over the past seven days has been a huge and significant help....

Remember that crazy hail storm on August 11 that cut right through the most populated areas of the Twin Cities? Well, that qualified as a...

Three to six inches of rain fell in an area just two miles by two miles in Duluth late Monday evening. If you know your Duluth...

The upcoming, potentially record-breaking September heat wave may just be a sign of things to come. We are looking at a likely 4 or 5...

The latest U.S. drought monitor for Minnesota spelled out more bad news. The Twin Cities is back in severe drought and extreme drought...

We hit 100 occasionally around here, but in June or July typically IF we do, especially in the most recent modern decades. August is much...

Here's an example for August 3rd, 2023 of how subtle increases change the probabilities and frequencies of certain temperature extremes....

Thursday will mark the third consecutive day of cooler than normal high temperatures in the Twin Cities. Normally that wouldn’t be...

The latest drought monitor shows almost no change in the drought despite the recent rains. Moderate drought actually expanded from about...

We’ve just come off a two and a half week stretch of hot weather. The average temperature the last 17 days was about 10 degrees (F) above...

It’s been another roller coaster spring thus far and we can measure it in a number of ways, not just temperature charts. Recent headlines...

80s next Wednesday!? Is it possible? sure. Is it likely? No. I had many people reach out with screen shots of their iPhone forecasts...

The polar bears are out hunting on the ice of Hudson Bay in full force at this time of year. Below are positions of satellite collared...